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Washington, George: Mary Ball
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The tall figure of George Washington on horseback, his large, strong hands on the reins, was well known in Williamsburg for three decades. Washington may have known Williamsburg as early as 1749 when, as a 17-year-old, he may have visited his colony's capital to apply for a surveyor's license from the College of William & Mary.
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Clooney asked Zellweger for weight advice George Clooney credits his former love Renee Zellweger with helping him gain enough weight to get into character for new movie Syriana. The 44-year-old struggled to pile on the required 15.5 kilograms (34 pounds) for his role as middle-aged CIA agent Bob Barnes, and was forced to ask Zellweger, who ballooned to play a plump singleton in Bridget Jones' Diary, for help. He says, "In the beginning it was fun not being able to get tables at restaurants, but being overweight is horrible for the blood pressure and my back is killing me. "But you couldn't read this script and not want to be in it." (contactmusic.com)
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The most thorough biography of Washington is Douglas Southall Freeman's monumental six-volume George Washington, completed in a seventh volume by John A. Carroll and Mary Wells Ashworth (1948-1957). The one-volume condensation of Freeman's work by Richard Harwell (1968) offers a well-rounded portrait of Washington as a person and as a public figure. Another major work is the splendidly written study by James Thomas Flexner, George Washington (1965-1972).
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